Accused Stalker Inquired: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a voicemail message which posed: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has persistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are facing charges charged with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, Leicester Crown Court heard communication data and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt persistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a DNA test during the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be unresolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
A separate recorded message, presented in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and plain like Madeleine was, but I feel what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a tiny probability that I'm her? Then what? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I maintain a life here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.
The tribunal was advised that through emails, text messages and calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the evidence, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, according to the phone records.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann responded to a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt deposited a recording on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court learned the co-defendant struck up a relationship via internet with Ms Wandelt before joining her on a trip to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in last December.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated through communication app to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to the village, that area, in last December.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from utensils at a dining venue.
"We have to take action," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the occasion of the visit to their house, the defendant sent a text which said: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark like investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with someone else I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.
